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Compilers: Principles and Practice by Pearson
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Compilers: Principles and Practice by Pearson

by Parag H. Dave, Himanshu B. Dave
May 2024
Intermediate to advanced
536 pages
17h 10m
English
Pearson India
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Code Generation and Machine-dependent Optimization 289
9.7 Code Optimization
An optimizing compiler tries to generate the target code which a good assembly language
programmer, intimately knowledgeable about the target processor, would have written. In this
process, the optimizer replaces some naïve programming constructs used by the High Level
language programmer, by more efficient target code sequences, at the same time maintaining the
semantics of the source code. Then what is the real issue? The point is: an optimizing compiler will
also provide a similar optimization across the different processor architectures. We want portability ...
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